Best ever result of Hong Kong teams at the 23rd AIAA Design Build Fly Competition in U.S.A.
Team photo (Advisor Mr C K Leung, Ng Ka-lok Kelvin, Yip Tsz-fung Edmond, Ng Cheuk-long, Supervisor Dr C K Chan, Ng Cheuk-yin Martin, Mok Siu-hei)
The “Design, Build and Fly” Team of Department of Mechanical Engineering participated in the “23rd AIAA Design Build Fly Competition” in the U.S.A. and ranked 13th among 104 eligible teams, which is the best ever result of Hong Kong teams since 2013.
The team, supervised by Dr C.K. Chan, comprised five mechanical engineering students Ng Ka-lok Kelvin, Yip Tsz-fung Edmond, Ng Cheuk-long, Ng Cheuk-yin Martin and Mok Siu-hei. They took part in a 4-day competition at Tucson International Modelplex Park Association (TIMPA) Airfield, Tucson, Arizona of U.S.A. from April 11 to 14 2019. With the theme “Aircraft Carrier Operations” in this year’s contest, the team submitted a design report and was shortlisted, ranking 9th and became one of the 77 competing teams from top universities all over the world.
Each team is required to complete a timed ground mission demonstrating full carrier operations and capable of completing three missions, including Delivery, Reconnaissance and Attack. The team successfully completed all the three missions and was ranked 13th in the competition. This is the best ever result among the teams from Hong Kong and is the best result in East Asia. For more details of the competition, please visit https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/19580.html.
Most Creative Idea Award at SG:Digital Wonderland
“RoboCoach” and “Lumino” were showcased in SG:Digital Wonderland 2019, the largest tech carnival in Singapore.
Two engineering projects of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) were shortlisted as finalists of the Young Innovation Awards in the SG:Digital Wonderland 2019, organised by the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) in Singapore. Among the 20 finalist teams from institutions of eight Asia Pacific countries, our AI-motion analysis project “RoboCoach” won the “Most Creative Idea Award” at the inaugural Youth Innovation Awards 2019 and received a cash prize of SG$2,000.
For more details of the exhibition, please visit https://engg.hku.hk/News-Events/Details/id/3741.
1st runner-up in the 8th IMechE Greater China Design Competition
A team from Department of Mechanical Engineering came second in the 8th IMechE Greater China Design Competition 2018-19. The team comprised of five Year 4 students Wong Chun-fai, Tang Ziling, Wong Oi-sze, Jamkhedkar Arvind and Shaikh Abdul Rehman. They competed with other seven teams from Hong Kong, Mainland China and Macau from March 23 to 24, 2019.
The topic of the competition this year was “Energy Relay”. Teams were required to design four devices with different energy source and complete a replay race in the shortest period of time. Our team got the highest score in the presentation in Day 1 and won the overall 1st Runner-up in the competition.